Entertainments.
HONGKONG VOLUNTEER CORPS.
A
PROMENADE
CONCERT
will be given on the VOLUNTEER PARADE GROUND, TO-MORROW NIGHT, (WEDNESDAY), July 2ýth, 1994, al 9 P.M.
Tickets, rice $2 and $, may be obtained
THE
Kutimations.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST- MENT AND AGENCY CO., LIMITED.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH TUESDAY, JULY 26, 1904.
N INTERIM DIVIDEND of Six Dollars A
per Share for six months ending June 30th, 1904, will be payable on the 27th instant, on which date DIVIDEND WARRANTS may be obtained on application at the Com
from Messrs. Kelly and Walsh or Volunteer pany's Office.. Headquarters,
If wet the Concert will be held in the CITY HALL,
Hongkong, 16th July, 1904.
THE GREAT SENSATION AND ATTRACTION IN THE EAST.
NEVER SEEN IN HONGKONG BEFORE.
GRAND
SIMONS'
CYCLORAMA AND WAX-WORKS EXHIBITION.
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The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 21st to the 27th instant, (both days inclusive).
By Order of the Board of Directors.
A. SHELTON HOOPER,
Secretary,
Hongkong, 12th July, 1904.
THE WEST POINT BUILDING COMPANY, LIMITED.
THE WAR.
Entimations.
Insurance,'
NORTH GERMAN FIRE INSURANO
COMPANY OF HAMBURG.
THE Undersigned AGENTS of the abora Company are prepared to accept First Class FOREIGN and CHINESE RISKS A CURRENT RATES.
SIEMSSEN & Üo.
Hongkang, 18th May, 1895.
a small country, without designs on China, and hence safer to deal with than · aggressive colonial Powers, such as France, for example,
MOTHERS SHOULD KNOW. THE VLADIVOSTOK SQUADRON,
with whom China was in constant trouble on
The troubles with multitudes of girls is a The following has been received at official her southern border. As a matter of fact, how-
want of proper nourishment and enough of it quarters in Tokyo:-
ever, the ink was not dry on this contract be-Now-a-days they call this condition by the According to a Reuter's telegram, Vice-fore an official publication by the Minister of learned name of Anemia. But words change Admiral Skrydloff on the 5th inst, submitted Foreign Affairs at Paris congratulated the
no facts. There are thousands of girls of this the following telegraphic repart to the Tzar: French people on the success of French kind anywhere between childhood and young The Russian torpedo-boat flotilla and the diplomacy, and made the following statement: ladyhood. Disease finds most of its victims transport Lena, under the command of Captain The result secured is due to the perseverance among them. They are too weak and frail to Baron Lerten, has made reconnaissance of of French and Belgian manufacturers, actively resist. Some of them are passing through the. the port of Gennon. No japanese warships seconded by their respective governments, and mysterious changes which lead up to maturity were found there, but there were in harbour the representatives in China of France and and need especial watchfulness and care. Alas, Japáñïèse steamer and a sailing-vessel, both of Belgium." Mr. Denhy goes on to show how a how many break down at this critical period; which were destroyed by the Russian torpedo- contract for this line was first offered in 1896 the story of such losses is the saddest in the boats, after their crews had landed. Numerous to an American syndicate, which, having gone history of home. The proper treatment mighNO ROOTERRACE.
to the length of sending a survey party over it have saved most of these household treasures, dropped it in the face of Belgian competition. if the mothers had only known of The Belgians, backed by France and Russia. eagerly seized it; terms with them were no object. They wished to get the contract into sure of being able eventually to modify the their hands and cut off competition, feeling
contract to suit themselves,
junks and boats inside the port were also des. 1830 troyed. Meanwhile the Russian torpedo-boats were fired upon by the Japanese soldiers, who quickly assembled on the hills and in the Japanese settlement, and shots were then ex Japanese being finally repulsed. Some barracks changed between the opposing parties, the
PANOPTICUM, DIORAMA, AN INTERM DIY IDEN For One Dots N INTERIM DIVIDEND of One Dollar eading 30th June, 1904, will he payable on the 17th instant, on which date DIVIDEND WARRANTS may be obtained on application at the Company's Office.
Des Vœux Road, opposite Central Market TO-NIGHT!
TO-NIGHT!!
TONIGHT!!
FROM 6 P.M. TO II P.M. and
Every day from 9 to 12 a.m. and from 5 to 11 p.m. COME AND SEE THIS UNIQUE and INTE RESTING EXHIBITION.
THE
PANOPTICUM, A Grand, Marvellous,
Magnificent and Extraordinary Show.
ALL LIFE SIZE AND MOVING WAX FIGURES, Made by the Cleverest and Rest Artists of
Еигоре.
Price of Admission ..................50 Cents. Children... *Soldiers and Sailors in uniform...jo
30
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A. W. SIMONS,
Sole Manager.
Fongkong, 23rd July, 1904.
Botices of Firms,
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company will be CLOSED from the 21st to the 27th instant, (both days inclusive).
By Order of the Board of Directors,
Secretary to the Hongkong Land invest.
A. SHELTON HOOPER,
ment and Agency Co., Ld. General Agents for the West Point Build- ing Co., Ld.
Hongkong, 12th July, 1904.
HONGKONG ICE COMPANY,
LIMITED.
NOTICE.
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N accordance with the Provisions of No. 104 of the Articles of Association the General Managers have this day declared an INTERIM DIVIDEND for the half-year ended 30th June, (8691904, of FOUR DOLLARS PER SHARE.
MR. ALFRED HENRY MANCELL has
this day been appointed AGENT for the GENERAL MANAGERS of the Com. pany, and in that capacity will reside in Shanghai, with general charge of the Company's interests at Shanghai, Hankow, Tientsin and in North China.
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.
Hongkong, 1st July, 1904.
A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED,
DIVIDEND WARRANTS may be obtained on application at the Office of the Company on and after TUESDAY, the 2nd August.
The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company -will be CLOSED from the 23rd to 31st inst.,
both days inclusive.
JARDINE, MATHESON & Co.,
General Managers. Hongkong, 19 h July, 1904.
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A. S. WATSON & CO., LIMITED.
ISSUE OF 30,000 NEW SHARES OF $10 EACH. DURSUANT to Resolution the General Managers of A. S. WATSON & Company, [79 Limited, hereby invite applications from the Shareholders of the Company for the issue of 30,000 new shares of $10 each at a Premium of
R. JOHN ARTHUR TARRANT has
10 per cent, or $11 a share.
would seem that the history of the Peking Haskow concession was about to be repeated in that of the Hankow-Canton.
WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION and given it to their daughter, they would have palatable as honey and contains all the nutritive grown to be strong and healthy women. It is
and curative properties of Pure Cod Liver Oil extracted by us from fresh cod livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of Hypophosphites and the Extracts of Malt and Wild Cherry. In
To Let
TO LET.
1, RIPON TERRACE in FLATS.
No. 37, WONG NEI CHONG ROAD, facing
Race Course. FLATS in MORETON TERRACE, facing
Poln Ground..
OFFICES in course of erection, Cox-
NAUGHT ROAD (near BLAKE PIER). GODOWNS: FRAYA EAST.
No. 1, CLIFTON GARDENS. OFFICES in Nas, to and 16, Des Vœux
ROAD CENTRAL-
Apply to
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO, LD. Hongkong. Mih July, 1904.
TO LET.
Scrofula, Rickets, and Bone and Blood diseases, particularly those troubled with Anemia,
nothing equals it; its tonic qualities are of the highest order. A Medical Institution says: "We have used your preparation in treating children for coughs, colds and inflammation; NOT STEY
on shore were destroyed by the Russian fire. There were no casualties on the Russian side. As the Vladivostok squadron under the com- mand of Vice-Admiral Bezobrazoff was about to enter the Korean channel on the Ist inst. at The latter contract which was secured in building up pale, puny, emaciated children, 6.20 p.m., a Japanese squadroa consisting of face of the persistent opposition of the con- seven warships and a few torpedo-boats, apcessionaires of the Northern, road, was des peared in sight, right ahead. The Russian
cribed by Mr. Denby as "a simple business squadron thereupon altered its course and matter, having no political back-ground." His retreated north, followed by the Japanese, who opened fire from a distance of 80 cables. The view of the enterprise was simply this Russian vessels did not respond. At about 8 p.m. the same day, a Japanese torpedo flotilla consisting of 1 boats closely approached the and discharged their torpedoes, but without result. Vice-Admiral Vestment and to enter an attractive field of lives to it." The more it is used the less will
Russian squadron
intended on the part of China to establish means of communication through three rich and pro- sperous provinces, while it is the purpose of the
Americans interested to obtain a profitable in.
industry." Mr. Denby was quite right in his as Bezobrazoff states that two of the Japanese sumption that the undertaking would be favour. torpedo-boats were sunk by Russian fire. Onably regarded in the assumption that "France the following morning nothing was to be seen
Her cargo
of the enemy. The British steamer Cheltenham, captured in the Japanese Sea, was brought to Vladivostok on the 7th inst. consisted of a quantity of sleepers and timber for the Soul-Fusan Railway. She was on her way from Otaru to Fusan when captured,
THE BELGO-AMERICAN RAIL-
ROAD ENTERPRISE.
its application has never failed us in any case, even the most aggravated bordering on pneumonia. The children like it, and it builds up their bodies; many little children owe their
2
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O. 1, STEWART. TERRACE
Apply to-
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST-
MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hongkong, 26th March, 1904.
"WO
TO LET.
ALEXANDRA BUILDINGS. Apply to-
SECRETARY,
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be the ravages of disease from infancy to old modern, scientific, and effective from the first age. It is both a food and a medicine,-.
with it since our little episode with Spain." the medicinal triumph of our time. "There is and Belgium will be less inclined to interfers dose. It never deceives or disappoints, and is. O ROOMS on the First Floor of
But, unfortunately, the enterprise did not prove no doubt about it." Sold by chemists. so tempting to American capital as had been anticipated, and, seizing a favourable orpor tunity, the Belgians accomplished by the simple process of purchasing a controlling interest in the stock of the American China Development Company an apparent right to dispose of the Canton Hankow concession at their pleasure.
The action of our State Department in regard to the status of the company, which hai thus passed into foreign hands, derives new interest from the reported determin.
CANTON DISTRICT.
LOCAL NOTICE TO MARINERS.
No. 66.
FROM THE New York Journal of Commerce. The statement has gone around the news. papers of the country that the recognition by the Department of State of the Canton Hankow ation of the Chinese Viceroys whose pro- the 21st instant a SPAR BEACON sur
Mthis day heen appointed ACTING of September, enos, applying for the New Issueployed in equipping Chins with the appliances
SECRETARY of the Company:
JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON, General Managers.
Hongkong, 1st July, 1904,
Each Registered Shareholder on the 28th day
will be entitled to one share for every twoshares registered in his name. Shares not applied for by these entitled to apply will be dealt with by the General Managers in accordance with Article 40 of the Company's Articles of [792 Association.
Applications for Shares in the New Issue will be received by the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong from the 28th September, 1904, to the 30th September, 1904, both days inclusive, and the whole amount of $1 per share will be payable on application. The TRANSFER BOOKS of the Company ́OS, 1, 2 or 3, STEWART TERRACE, will be CLOSED from the 28th September,
THE PEAK.
1904, to the 8th October, 1904, both days inclusive. Apply to-
Nos,
For Sale.
FOR SALE.
THE HONGKONG LAND INVEST. MENT & AGENCY CO., LD. Hangkang, 20th May, 1904
ONE
FOR SALE.
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ICE MAKING MACHINE with GAS ENGINE complete.
For full Particulars, apply to
HUGHES & HOUGH, 8, Des Voeux Road.
Hongkong, 27th June, 1904.
FOR SALE.
INCANDI
INCANDESCENT GASOLINE
The present paid-up Capital of the Company is $600,000, divided into 60,000 shares of $10 each, and the New Issue is required to increase the Capital of the Company to $900,000 divided into 90,000 shares of $10 each.
The whole of the premium received from the New Issue will be placed to the Credit of the Permanent Reserve Fund.
The New Issue will rank for Dividend for the three months ending 31st December, 1904, pay- able in May, 1905.
Forms of application for the New issue can be obtained at the Company's Offices in Alex- andra Buildings or at the Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation in Hongkong, [769 Shanghai, and London."
LAMPS
OF ALL DESCRIPTIONS,
Railway as an American enterprise is calculated vinces are to be traversed by the railroad to to increase American influence in and is a refuse to recognise the validity of the con- cession in its present bands. Wachang and notice of "hands off" to Russia.
it happens that nothing could be much far. Cantos appear to have more accurate in- ther from the truth. There can be no question formation on this subject than is obtainable in that, as originally organised and planned, this Washington, and as it happens to be the Chinese enterprise was siccepted as evidence that Ame-authorities who must be the ultimate judge of rican energy and capital would be freely em. whether the American concessionnaires have lived up to their contract, it is the verdict of the Southern Viceroys that will carry weight in Paking rather than that of our Department of State. Happily, our Government reserved it right to cease its recognition of and Assistance to the American China Develop ment Company in case of any change in the organisation or conduct of that corporation which may seem to justify such action. Confronted by the proofs on which the Chinese Government bases its attitude toward the concession, the Department of State is not likely to persist in considering the Americas, China Development Company to be in good faith an American company.
of modern civilisation. The concession was given to Americans on the special ground that it was highly desirable, for the future of China, to enlist in the work of developing the material burces of the empire the aid of a nation which not only had no designs of its own on the territory of China, but which was vitally interested in counteracting the designs of other nations on that territory. Both by the representatives of China and the United States this point was strongly insisted on when the contract was signed with the Brice syndicate in 1898 for the construction of the Canton-Yankow railroad, and that con- tract expressly guards the nationality of the enterprise against alienation. When General Parsons and his surveying party went over the route to be traversed by the proposed American railroad, the advent of citizens of the United Stater in the field of Chinese railroad construc tion was everywhere the subject of congratu| employed are increasing at the rate of 3,000 a lation. Mr. Charles Denby, Jr., who accom- day. ́panied the party as interpreter, said in a maga-
The Timer states that the war is crippling Russian trade. During May, the railways carried 100,002 tops less goods than in May, 1903. There are 60,000 railway and 350,000 factory hands idle in Russia, and the un
zine article published in 1899, that he would A BELGIAN has invented a method of sound
This signalling ca never forget the enthusiasm with which the signalling under water people and the officials along the line wel.be heard at a distance so to tos kilometres comed American co-operation in Chinese rail- (48 to 6 miles), and it is expected to do much JOHN D. HUMPHREYS & SON,
way construction. In the concluding paragraph to obviate collisions at sea, or accidents in General Managers,
of his very interesting book "An American harbour during foggy weather. It will be pos Hongkong, 22nd June, 1904.
[754 Engineer in China." General Parsons says that sible for two ships to communicate with one in the work of regeneration in China the in- another, in a fog, in a snow-storm or when too JOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that it fluence of the United States "should be, and far apart for the reading of the ordinary ships'
Galvastity of
for many reasons inevitably will be a prepor- code signals. The new invention is shortly to FLOUR of Inferior Quality to the Flour derating weight." Thus, he added, following be tried on a line of steamers plying between Manufactured by the STOCKTON MILLING COMPANY, of San Francisco, California, the rule that the world's progress has always England and the Continent.
been from the rising to the setting sun, “after a lapse of five thousand years, the youngest of rather to return, this light to the oldest, whence great nations is preparing to pass on, or
it started on its 'circum-orbem 'Journey,"
from the best makers.
INCANDESCENT
improperly packed by certain Flour Dealers MANTLES,
in bags which bear upon them the "CROWN “ Trade Mark of the Stockton Milling Company, CHIMNEYS,
and that such Flour has been passed off to GLOBES,
purchasers thereof na the "CROWN" Brand SHADES, &c., Flour Manufactured by the Stockton Milling Company, which Flour has of late years become well-known on the Hongkong market as Flour of the most superior quality.
Persons purchasing "CROWN" Brand Flour are therefore warned, and requested, to examine all bags supplied to them which purport to contain such four, and. to satisfy themselves that such bags are bags manufactured by, or for the use of, the Stockton Milling Company
and known as the "Cnown" Brand, has been
for
GASOLINE AND GAS
LAMPS
at the most moderate prices.
Lamps fixed up for Buyers free of charge.
Naphtha of the best kind kept in stock.
TAI KOWNG CO..
56, Lyndhurst Terrace.
Hongkong, and May, 1904.
AN APPEAL.
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of San Francisco and have not been re-sewn or otherwise tampered with.
Hongkong, 22nd July, 1904.
Elvy's
Satinette
THE SUPERIORESS of the ITALIAN CONVENT, CAINE ROAD, bege most respectfully to APPEAL to the Residents of Hongkong and the Coast Ports, for their kind patronage and support, and desires to state that she will be pleased to receive orders for all kinds of NEEDLE WORK.
Gentlemen's Shirts made to order, and Cuffe and Collars renewed on old ones."
Ladies and Children's Under-clothing Can. dren's Dresses, and all kinds of Embroidery, Materials can be supplied, if required.
the
As has already been explained at sufficient length in these columns, the control of the American China Development Company bas passed into the hands of a syndicate at the head of which is the King of the Belgians, and the conduct of the first and only work which it has undertaken-the construction of the Canton-Hankow Railway-is super vised not from New York, but from Brussels, the members of the nominally American or
Intimations.
LADY (Married) requires position as HOUSE KEEPER, or ASSISTANT HOUSE-KEEPER in Good Hotel in Hong kong, or Manila, or would not object to servo
Apply--
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Hongkong, 15th July, 1904
"BOX,"
Cjo This Paper,
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ROYAL AERATED WATERS MANUFACTORY.
DRODUCE the highest Class AERATED (867ganisation here being merely agents of thoss PWATERS in the Far East on account of bigher in authority on the other side of the their High Class Machinery and also of the ESPECIAL OLD TOM GIN. Atlantic. It does not greatly matter in whose superior lagredients they ase in the manufacture names the stock may stand on the books of the of their goods, and the cleanliness, &c., are all Marshall and
under strict supervision of Europeans only. corporation if its real ownership be elsewhere.
REPORT OF AN EXPERT. In these circumstances it is difficult to see how American influence in China is to be promot
The representative of Messrs. BRATBY and ed, or Chinese apprehensions as to the exten- HINCHLIFFE, LIMITED, Aerated Water sion of Russian influence through railroad our factory recently in the course of a tour Engineers and Chemists, Manchester, visited ownership are to be allayed, by any declaration amongst Eastern Aerated Water Makers, and on the part of our Government that it still re- was greatly surprised at the compactness of our gards the American China Development Com factory and also the methodical way in which pany as an American corporation, and that this, everything pertaining to the making of Aerated Waters was carried out. He also expressed him. Government alone has the right to deal with salf strongly on the absolute cleanliness of our diplomatic questions affecting the interests of whole establishment, which be assured us was the company. In point of fact, we can imagine "equal to any he had yet visited and superior no more fatal blow to American influence than to a great many, He also reported that the its covert use for the promotion of ends equally quality of our goods was of a first class nature, aat they showed that scrupulous care was foreign to the avowed policy and aims of this exercised in the course of their manufacture. Government and to the interests of our com
Order Books and Price List. Please apply to merce in China. In the magazine article al- ready quoted from, Mr. Danby paints out that the Chinese negotiated with Belgians for the construction of the railroad from Paking to [608 Hankow, because Belgium was supposed to be
DOUBLY DISTILLED
AND OF
MATURED AGE.
The Superioress will also be most grateful TO BE OBTAINED FROM-
for any PAPER, or old ENVELOPES to be made
Into Books for the Children of the Poor Schools,
who are taught by the Sisters.
Hongkong, zrod April, 1891.
THE MUTUAL STORES,
Des Vœux Road.
Hongkong, 11th May, 1904,
A. S. Watson & Co., Limited. Hongkong, 16th June, 1904.
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TO LET.
IMMEDIATE POSSESSION.
FOR 18 MONTHS..
Additional Light at "T EIGHTOR," THE PEAK. Whampoa Barrier,
Apply to-
JEBSEN & Co. Hongkong, 27th April, 1904.
TO LET.
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OTICE is hereby given that on ar about
mounted by a Dise and showing at night o RED LIGHT (unclassed) will be placed on the Northern edge of the Channal immediately below the Steamer passage through the WWANGHAI ROAD, Confortable and Whampoa Barrier.
Approved,
R. DE LUCA,
J. HOWELL MAY,
Harbour Master.
Acting Commissioner of Customs. Custom House,
Canton, 20th July, 1904.
THE
Airy Flats of 2 or 3 Rooms, from 5a5 inclusiva of Taxes,
No. 2, HOLLYWOOD ROAD, And others to suit various requirements.
S. A. SETH, Land and Estate Broker, Dairy Farm Co., Ltd.
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Hongkong, 13th July, 1904.
ROBINSON
PIANO
Co., LTD.,
INVITE INSPECTION OF SOME
SPECIALLY
FINE
THE WINE GROWERS SUPPLY CO.
THE
HE Undersigned, having been appointed AGENTS for 'the WINE 'GROWERS SUPPLY COMPANY or PARIS, are now prepared to answer inquiries and receive orders for all kinds of WINES and SPIRITS, at 22 and 24, Bank Buildings.
BARRETTO & CO.
St. George....sta» de ** Cru Wyabroncsenest
Côtes .........
CLARETS.
Per Case. 1 doz. qts.
$4.00
4,50
5.00
5.50
6.00
6.00
6.50
7.50
SAMPLES Montferrand......
OF
UPRIGHT PIANOS
RACHALS,
STUART,
Medoc
St. Emilion..... St. Estephe.............. St. Julien.......
CLARETS.
Boitied by Jules Merman & Cia, Bordeaux,
Pauillac • Coles.... Medoc
Per Case. Per Case.
I doz, qts, a dos, pts,
dizenj...........$14.00 $15.00
* 15.00 16.00 St. Estepheéti...ki...... 16,00 Chateau Ludovica........: 13.00 Galic........... 18.00
#
В
$17,00 18.00
19.00
&C.,
&c.,
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» Margaux ...imismo. 30,00
11.00
Mouton d'Armailbacq 24.00
25,00
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Pontet Canet ... 26.00 Marbuzet Merman... 27.00
27.00
18.00
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BY
WINKELMANN,
(Established 1837).
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ing the space of a Cottage, but with
FACTORY and OFFICE, West Point, Tal.367 the fine appearance and TONE OF A Depot, Ice House Streat, Tel. 374. Dr.V,
Rausan....... 30.00 32.00
SPANISH CLARET. Bottled by La Compania Vinicola del Norte de España, Bilbao
Par Case.
Rioja Clareto.....á
J
7 doz qus.
$12.00
APANESE. BEER.
"KABUTO" BRAND.
Per Case 4 doz. qike air
Braşo
8 dos pls. mugam, $12.00
H
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WPA TE BL
"PEACOCK BRAND,
Per Case 4 doz pts.
$3.50.
Hongkong, 13th May, 1904.
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Hongkong, 13th July, 1994,
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DANENBERG & FP, DANENBERG. FULL GRAND.
General Managers, Hongkong, 30th May, 1904,
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